Exiting Aktau I entered a post-apocalyptic Mad Max world of tangled networks of oil and gas pipelines and tanks, nodding derricks pumping the earth, and flaming spouts of burnoff shooting into the sky. The ugly circus of oil extraction was making quite a spectacle of itself in the otherwise barren landscape. (6-03-05)

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Derrick Action, Kazakhstan, Day 1 of the Ride